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email: bfagan@umd.edu
phone:
301.405.4672 (office)
301.405.4512 (lab)
fax:301.314.9358
office:3235 Bio-Psych
graduate programs: Biology, BEES, MEES,AMSC
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RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research involves meshing field biology with theoretical models to address critical questions in community ecology and conservation biology. I believe that ecological theory will be strengthened if it is forced to help solve real-world problems, and that conservation biology involves difficult choices that demand quantitative approaches. My ongoing research falls in several areas that illustrate this melding of theory and problem-solving, including 1) spatial ecological dynamics, 2) ecoinformatics, biodiversity databases, and conservation planning, and 3) biological stoichiometry and paleoecostoichioproteomics.

Recent Publications

Muneepeerakul, R., E. Bertuzzo, H.J. Lynch, W.F. Fagan, A. Rinaldo and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe. 2008. Neutral metacommunity models predict fish diversity
patterns in Mississippi-Missouri basin. Nature 453: 220-222.


Mueller, T. and W.F. Fagan. 2008. Search and navigation in dynamic environments - from individual behaviors to population distributions. Oikos
117: 654-664.

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